Bio: is an architect and partner in OCEAN NORTH, the Emergence and Design Group and the Differentiated Structures Research Group. He studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and graduated from the AA School of Architecture with Honours. He has been a visiting professor at Rice University School of Architecture, Houston and is currently Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 and Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the AA. Achim Menges recently received the FEIDAD (Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design) Outstanding Design Award in 2002, the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2003, the Archiprix International Award 2003, RIBA Tutor Price 2004 and the International Bentley Educator of the Year Award 2005.

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Alberto Moletto studied architecture in Chile where Ramirez-Moletto, his Santiago-based architectural practice, has completed a wide range of building projects and had its work published and exhibited extensively in Chile and abroad.

Bio: Alisa Andrasek is a director of BIOTHING and an experimental practitioner of architecture and computation. She graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she has also taught, as well as at Pratt, UPENN, RMIT Melbourne and RPI. Andrasek won the Metropolis Next Generation Award in 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Scripted by Purpose, Philadelphia 2007; Seroussi pavilion and Ars Mathematica, both Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004/06/08; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 2005. She curated the East Coast section of the Emergent Talent Emergent Technologies exhibition for the 2006 and 2008 Beijing Biennial.

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-year partnership in Ron Arad Associates produced the acclaimed Chalk Farm Studios, Londons two Belgo Restaurants and the Tel Aviv Operas free-form interior architecture. She formed ABA to pursue larger-scale public, urban and housing projects.

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Jorge Rodríguez Álvarez graduated from the Architectural School of A Coruña, Spain and was awarded an MA in Building Conservation and Urban Regeneration from the University of Santiago. He completed the MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design at the AA with Distinction in 2008. He co-founded SAAI in 2009, an environmental consultancy firm with projects in Europe, Asia and America.

Bio: studied architecture at the AA and at the University of Texas at Austin, before completing additional academic trainings in structural engineering (at MIT) and sculpture (at St Martins).

Bio: has for more than 20 years run a small architectural practice specialising in conservation work, principally in the ecclesiastical field. He is involved in the postgraduate training of conservation students at three institutions.

Bio: Andrew Yau is part of Urban Future Organization, an international architecture practice research collaborative. UFO has won a number of international competitions, exhibited its work at the Venice and Beijing Biennales and was recently featured in 10X10 v. 2.